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Old 8th Dec 2010, 08:44
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Genghis the Engineer
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In my early 20s I was an engineer working with a bunch of scientists whose mentality was so different to mine we could have been from different planets - they were all about the information, I was all about the results.

So, I put up a notice on my desk

"Dear Scientists

Please remember.

Best is the enemy of good enough.

Signed

Genghis the Engineer".


It seemed a good name at the time, and subsequently I started using it on bulletin boards. Since then I've read a few biographies of t'other Genghis (previously known as Temijin son of Yesugei) and find him a really quite fascinating chap - anybody who can go from naked and weaponless on the Mongol Steppes at age 7 to ruling about a third of the known world by 37 had something going for him, although my own career path has been a bit slower !

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